Oh Canada – small dead animals

We on the right seem to spend a lot of time bashing Canada. How about, just for a change, we talk about some of the things we like about living here? Here’s my short list:

Newfie culture and music (Great Big Sea rocks!)
Our geography
The freedoms we enjoy (which are still considerable)
Canadian photography (Yusef Karsh was a Canucklehead!)
Living on the prairies
Stompin’ Tom

What do you folks like about Canada?

66 Replies to “Oh Canada”

Aw, c’mon. Stop it. You right wingers are bringing tears to my eyes. You keep this up and you might start convincing people that you actually like if not love this country. No fair spoiling stereotypes.
Anyway, have to say from the centre/centre-left: good post. Keep this kind of thing up and you might end up in government.
And I just have to add my voice to the chorus of those who love the sound of crunching dry snow. The only thing that comes close to comparing is the cut of a steel blade on the frozen water of a northern pond.
Cheers.
TB
Cerberus

I’m sorry, I know, but “A kick ass national anthem?”
Give me a break. Canada’s national anthem should be:
The Log Drivers’ Waltz – by Wade Hemsworth
If you should ask any girl from the parish around
What pleases her most from her head to her toes
She’ll say, “I’m not sure that it’s business of yours
But I do like to waltz with a log driver.
Chorus:
For he goes birling down a-down the white water
That’s where the log driver learns to step lightly
It’s birling down, a-down white water
A log driver’s waltz pleases girls completely.
When the drive’s nearly over, I like to go down
To see all the lads while they work on the river
I know that come evening they’ll be in the town
And we all want to waltz with a log driver.
To please both my parents I’ve had to give way
And dance with the doctors & merchants & lawyers
Their manners are fine but their feet are of clay
For there’s none with the style of a log driver.
I’ve had my chances with all sorts of men
But none is so fine as my lad on the river
So when the drive’s over, if he asks me again
I think I will marry my log driver.

For me, it was being a wee lad on the prairies in Sask.
Although I admit to enjoying the smell of the Atlantic blowing into my face. Nothing’s more refreshing, invigorating, nor as peaceful.

– watching the moon come up over Dalhousie reflecting in the Baie des chaleurs
– waking up in a tent to the first snowfall of the year
– downtown Montreal on F1 weekend!!
– the plethora of lakes and rivers we have to appreciate
– paddling through morning mist in the early fall

I like Canadians. (Most Canadians, anyway. I fear that, since I am an American, Carolyn Parrish and I would not get along well.) I think, on the whole, Canadians are way above the world average for decency and civilized behavior. And that’s no small achievement, though it may seem so if you are living inside the country.
And I admire Canada’s record in World Wars I and II.

Almost all the things I like about Canada are actually things I like about Vancouver.

What does any of this stuff have to do with Canada? I like a lot of places and a lot of people. They aren’t “Canada” and they don’t have much to do with Canada, except that Canada squats malignantly on top of them all.
And being too stupid to understand that does not give you any moral authority, so you can save the smug tut-tutting for someone who can’t see you for the brainless shit you are.

I’m thinking ebt won’t be whipping up some beer commercials for Molson anytime soon. Sean probably will, though.

I’m a bit of a nature nut so:
1. The Rockies for hiking and kayaking although I don’t do as much as I used to. Banff, Canmore, Jasper.
2. Edmonton river valley system
3. Nova Scotia in the fall. It was exceptional to be staying in Peggy’s cove during a fall storm in 2001. Very powerful.
4. Vancouver Island.
5. Montreal generally but Mount Royal specifically.
6. Confederation Bridge was something quite amazing.
7. Lastly, I like the fact that was able to learn French in school so that I can use it a little bit when travelling abroad. I wish we had more Spanish instruction earlier as well.

It is a begging question “What do you like about Canada”? Almost like the most unbearable bore in school saying “Why don’t you like me?” The geography of Canada is beautiful but it seems empty – no one can put up with a airhead , even if beautiful, for very long. Canada is too many things to too many people to have any character – we lost the soul of our nation after Trudeax and his communist ‘flat earth’ method of ‘management’. I wish there could be a way to go back to 1955 and change the history of this country – it could have been the best country in the world.

Right on! As an American who spends over a month per year in the great white north, I can say there is much to love in Canada. You happened to hit two of my favorites – ‘Great Big Sea’ and ‘Yusef Karsh’. May I humbly add that Canada boasts a national anthem that most humans can actually sing, spectacular scenerey, and the finest chain of doghnut shops in North America. Canada is, without a doubt, my very second-favoritist country on the continent.

What do I like about Canada? It has some of the best goddam conservative bloggers around! Also we kick ass in hockey. And I love Don Cherry. Oh, and Vimy Ridge is still one of the coolest military victories, even more than 80 years later.